Newbie wants help

2009-02-11 Thread Michael Bell
Forgive me, a newbie, for asking innocent questions. I hope I also hope it makes you see how it looks to an innocent. I am running !NetSurf r5792. It has its problems, particularly overwriting, much discussed on this group, and now that that problem seems to be sorted, I though it time to downl

Newbie wants help - 2nd thoughts

2009-02-11 Thread Michael Bell
Forgive me, a newbie, for asking innocent questions. I hope I also hope it makes you see how it looks to an innocent. I am running !NetSurf r5792. It has its problems, particularly overwriting, much discussed on this group, and now that that problem seems to be sorted, I though it time to downl

Re: Newbie wants help

2009-02-11 Thread Ian Hamilton
In article <5483db2b50.michaelb...@michael.beaverbell.co.uk>, Michael Bell wrote: > Forgive me, a newbie, for asking innocent questions. I hope I also > hope it makes you see how it looks to an innocent. > I am running !NetSurf r5792. It has its problems, particularly > overwriting, much dis

Re: Newbie wants help

2009-02-11 Thread John-Mark Bell
On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 09:04 +, Michael Bell wrote: > "Installation is a three step process: > >1. Use the Boot Merge facility provided by Configure to merge >the supplied !Boot directory with the one on your system. > >If there is no !Boot merge facility on your system,

Re: Newbie wants help

2009-02-11 Thread Michael Drake
In article <5483db2b50.michaelb...@michael.beaverbell.co.uk>, Michael Bell wrote: > I am not sure what a "!Boot merge facility" looks like, so I dragged > the supplied !Boot over my existing boot icon. http://www.netsurf-browser.org/documentation/resinstall#BootMerge Michael -- Michael D

Re: Newbie wants help - 2nd thoughts

2009-02-11 Thread Richard Porter
On 11 Feb 2009 Michael Bell wrote: > Maybe I should mention that I renamed my old !NetSurf to !NetSurfOld > to get it out of the way, as I think I ought to. I don't know if > that's relevant. That's what I do, or more accurately I rename it to !NetSurfmmdd where mmdd is the release month and dat

Re: Newbie wants help - 2nd thoughts

2009-02-11 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 11 Feb 2009 Richard Porter wrote: > On 11 Feb 2009 Michael Bell wrote: >> Maybe I should mention that I renamed my old !NetSurf to !NetSurfOld >> to get it out of the way, as I think I ought to. I don't know if >> that's relevant. > That's what I do, or more accurately I rename it to !NetSu

Re: Newbie wants help - 2nd thoughts

2009-02-11 Thread Chris Newman
In article , Dr Peter Young wrote: > On 11 Feb 2009 Richard Porter wrote: > > On 11 Feb 2009 Michael Bell wrote: > >> Maybe I should mention that I renamed my old !NetSurf to !NetSurfOld > >> to get it out of the way, as I think I ought to. I don't know if > >> that's relevant. > > That's

Re: Newbie wants help - 2nd thoughts

2009-02-11 Thread Dr Peter Young
On 11 Feb 2009 Chris Newman wrote: > In article , >Dr Peter Young wrote: >> On 11 Feb 2009 Richard Porter wrote: >>> On 11 Feb 2009 Michael Bell wrote: Maybe I should mention that I renamed my old !NetSurf to !NetSurfOld to get it out of the way, as I think I ought to. I don't

abd

2009-02-11 Thread Torrens (lists)
I know these aren't implemented yet - but a supreme example of a page that needs them is http://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/content/abstract/125/3/466 I lookad at why words werre eliding would you believe it's filled with .. what on earth is a superscript space for? -- Richard Torrens. http://www

Re: abd

2009-02-11 Thread Paul Vigay
In article <502c137749li...@torrens.org.uk>, Torrens (lists) wrote: > I know these aren't implemented yet - but a supreme example of a page > that needs them is http://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/content/abstract/125/3/466 > I lookad at why words werre eliding would you believe it's filled with >

Re: abd

2009-02-11 Thread David H Wild
In article <502c1997a2lists-nos...@vigay.com>, Paul Vigay wrote: > > I know these aren't implemented yet - but a supreme example of a page > > that needs them is http://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/content/abstract/125/3/466 > > I lookad at why words werre eliding would you believe it's filled > >

Re: abd

2009-02-11 Thread Paul Vigay
In article <502c1f73cedhw...@talktalk.net>, David H Wild wrote: > They are implemented. The real problem with this site is that the > superscript spaces - weird things - are not recognised by Netsurf as > being spaces. As Richard asked, what is the purpose of a superscript > space? Aha. Perha

Re: abd

2009-02-11 Thread Keith Hopper
In article <502c231f47lists-nos...@vigay.com>, Paul Vigay wrote: [snip] > Having said that, I don't think it's just superscript spaces that NetSurf > has a problem with. I've noticed that quite often NetSurf will omit a space > when it's immediately next to an HTML tag. For example, see the tw

Re: abd

2009-02-11 Thread Richard Porter
On 11 Feb 2009 Keith Hopper wrote: > In article <502c231f47lists-nos...@vigay.com>, >Paul Vigay wrote: > [snip] >> Having said that, I don't think it's just superscript spaces that NetSurf >> has a problem with. I've noticed that quite often NetSurf will omit a space >> when it's immediately